John Turturro
Biography
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American-Italian actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee.
He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020.
An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005).
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-28
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
The Big Lebowski
1998
7.84
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
7.32
Barton Fink
1991
7.46
Miller's Crossing
1990
7.46
Do the Right Thing
1989
7.75
The Good Shepherd
2006
6.34
Secret Window
2004
6.57
State of Grace
1990
6.90
Rounders
1998
7.01
Jungle Fever
1991
6.39
Transformers
2007
6.81
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
5.72
Mr. Deeds
2002
5.91
Fearless
1993
6.89
Clockers
1995
6.70
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
7.51
The Truce
1997
6.20
Box of Moonlight
1996
6.84
Quiz Show
1994
7.30
Monkeybone
2001
5.12
The Sicilian
1987
5.23
The Color of Money
1986
6.85
What Just Happened
2008
5.43
Cradle Will Rock
1999
6.50
Brain Donors
1992
6.20
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
6.10
Anger Management
2003
6.15
Catchfire
1990
5.40
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
7.10
Collateral Damage
2002
5.76
Gung Ho
1986
6.04
Senza Lucio
2015
7.50
Margot at the Wedding
2007
5.84
Mo' Better Blues
1990
6.50
The Man Who Cried
2000
6.09
Fear X
2003
5.79
Company Man
2000
5.10
Lesser Prophets
1997
5.30
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
6.21
A Few Days in September
2006
5.00
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
7.00
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
6.35
Cars 2
2011
6.14
Slipstream
2007
4.96
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
1994
5.60
The Nutcracker
2010
5.04
The Luzhin Defence
2000
6.10
Unstrung Heroes
1995
5.90
Five Corners
1987
5.80
Illuminata
1998
5.50
Sugartime
1995
5.90
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
0.00
Men Of Respect
1990
4.70
Grace of My Heart
1996
6.30
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
6.00
Two Thousand and None
2000
4.20
Mac
1992
5.80
Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014
5.87
Forty Winks
2022
5.70
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
5.30
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998
7.30
New York at the Movies
2002
10.00
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
7.50
Fading Gigolo
2013
5.80
Gods Behaving Badly
2013
4.00
God's Pocket
2014
5.82
2BPerfectlyHonest
2004
4.50
The Flamingo Kid
1984
6.00
The Cut
2025
0.00
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
0.00
Off Beat
1986
4.90
High Noon on the Waterfront
2022
6.70
Mia madre
2015
6.65
The Room Next Door
2024
6.79
Wilder & Me
0.00
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
2015
4.30
Hands of Stone
2016
6.62
He Got Game
1998
6.75
All Revved Up
1998
5.80
The Ridiculous 6
2015
5.20
Secret Passage
2004
2.50
Being Human
1994
5.10
Raging Bull
1980
7.92
Landline
2017
6.20
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
6.05
The Source
1999
5.19
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
6.71
The Jesus Rolls
2019
4.52
Rio, I Love You
2014
4.90
Brando
2007
6.80
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
6.07
She Hate Me
2004
5.10
Search and Destroy
1995
4.90
Exterminator 2
1984
4.10
Frank Serpico
2017
6.20
At Sundance
1995
5.50
Gloria Bell
2019
5.98
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2019
6.00
Summer of Sam
1999
6.48
Girl 6
1996
5.00
The Batman
2022
7.66
In the Shadow of No Towers
2011
0.00
Opopomoz
2003
7.10
Hair
2017
7.00
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
8.06
The Oedipus Project
2020
10.00
Passione
2010
6.50
Heaven Touches Brooklyn in July
2002
0.00
